The Third Beacon from Gondor

Tag: rcov

I like building tests for my code. That is not an old habit, it’s just something I’ve been developing in the recent months or some few years. No, I am not doing TDD (although that doesn’t sound like a bad idea): I just build tests after I code as a safeguard – to be sure I haven’t broken anything. I suspect there are more programmers like myself than those using tests as part of a TDD (BDD, SDD, etc) approach, but that is just an opinion.

Well I just recently became found of code coverage estimates and tools, and rcov is such a nice tool that sometimes I just find myself building tests just to “please” it. I also suspect there are at least a bunch of people that do the same. Here are the results of the test coverage of one of my projects: